The House Rules Committee is reviewing amendments now, and the full Farm Bill isexpectedto be voted on by the House during the week of April 27.
The amendments result from White Coat Waste investigations in recent years that uncovered USDA funding for these kinds of animal tests and drew criticism and action from lawmakers and Trump Administration officials.
In 2024, White Coat Waste exposed USDA and National Institutes of Health funding for experiments at Cornell University that infected kittens with COVID and then killed them.
As The Gateway Punditpreviously reported, Senator Rand Paul featured the project in his Festivus waste report in 2024, citing White Coat’s work.
The USDA funding for Cornell’s COVID cat lab is set to run until May 31, 2026.
The group also uncovered USDA funding fordeadly kitten testingat Auburn University.
The proposed Farm Bill amendment to defund foreign adversaries’ animal labs also follows a White Coat Waste investigation exposing how theBiden USDA fundeda $1 million bird flu gain-of-function collaboration with Chinese researchers affiliated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its CCP-controlled parent organization.
The grant drew scrutiny from Senator Joni Ernst and Rep. Ben Cline, and, as Gateway Punditpreviously reported, last year, Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cut funding for this dangerous animal research project and ended it early.
In 2023, White Coat Waste found adisturbing USDA grantfunding an experimental fur farm controlled by the Russian government that breeds foxes to be “tame” or “aggressive,” videotapes them, and then kills and dissects their brains.
Anotheramendmentsubmitted by Reps. Mace and Titus would add legislation, called Violet’s Law, to the Farm Bill, requiring all federal research facilities to have policies allowing lab animals to be retired and rehomed.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
